r/talesfromtechsupport Dec 18 '19

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u/zalvernaz Dec 18 '19

Oh God. I thought people were dumb just from reading this sub, but this takes the cake.

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u/KnottaBiggins Dec 19 '19

One that isn't on this sub, but my co-worker took.
"Sometimes our printer runs out of paper. What can we do about that?"

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u/zorander6 Dec 19 '19

"Quit using the printer for personal printing." - I didn't get in trouble for that response. This department printed almost 5000 pages a day and half of it was recipes.

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u/creegro (turns off/on monitor) ok the PC is rebooted Dec 19 '19

A guy at my old government job took up the single printer we had for an hour to print up 500 pages of a book he wanted to read.